US Senator Heinrich-NM Questions Trump Admin On “Unprecedented Action To Distort The Markets” By Forcing Ratepayers To Subsidize Nuclear And Coal

The Trump administration wants to force ratepayers to subsidize uneconomic, polluting, nuclear and coal power stations. US Senator from New Mexico, Martin Heinrich, a Democrat, calls this “an unprecedented action to distort the markets.” Republicans pretend to be free-enterprise capitalists, but want socialistic distortion of the markets to benefit the nuclear and coal industries. They want socialism for the rich and free market capitalism for the poor. Nuclear power has always been subsidized by the taxpayer and the ratepays and has never been economic.